Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) dvd this story carries the reader

this story carries the reader through the war’s most crucial juncture

and the contents of a never-before-seen contemporary scrapbook to explain how the country descended into civil war

which he’d then keep close at hand

Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) dvd this story carries the readerby David K. Thomson How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War. How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was